unutterable

英 [ʌnˈʌtərəbl]

美 [ʌnˈʌtərəbl]

adj.  难以言表的; 说不出的

BNC.39325 / COCA.37267

牛津词典

adj.

• 难以言表的；说不出的
  used to emphasize how great a particular emotion or quality is
  1. unutterable sadness
     无法形容的悲伤

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （尤指不好的事情）无以名状的，难以形容的，莫名的
  You can useunutterableto emphasize that something, especially a bad quality, is great in degree or intensity.
  1. I am at the beginning of a new and unutterable loneliness.
     我再次陷入莫名的孤独寂寞中。
  2. ...unutterable rubbish.
     一派胡言

英英释义

adj

• very difficult to pronounce correctly
  1. an unpronounceable foreign word
  2. unutterable consonant clusters
  Synonym:unpronounceable
• defying expression or description
  1. indefinable yearnings
  2. indescribable beauty
  3. ineffable ecstasy
  4. inexpressible anguish
  5. unspeakable happiness
  6. unutterable contempt
  7. a thing of untellable splendor
  Synonym:indefinableindescribableineffableunspeakableuntellable
• too sacred to be uttered
  1. the ineffable name of the Deity
  Synonym:ineffableunnameableunspeakable

双语例句

• An unpronounceable foreign word; unutterable consonant clusters.
  很难发音的外语词；难发音的辅音丛。
• The acuteness and the significance of the Captain's eye as he cocked it in reply, no words short of those unutterable Chinese words before referred to could describe.
  船长的眼睛向上一瞟作为回答，那眼光的锐利与意味深长，除了前面提到的不能发音的中国语言外，其他语言都不能形容。
• I had scarcely seen him when I was filled with unutterable joy and inconceivable bliss.
  我一看见他，心中就有说不出的愉悦。
• He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of god.
  他知道他一跟这个姑娘亲吻，并把他那些无法形容的憧憬和她短暂的呼吸永远结合在一起，他的心灵就再也不会像上帝的心灵一样自由驰骋了。
• So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow; while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves.
  于是，他们默默忍受着难言曲折磨，在同伴中走来走去，表面象新落下的雪一般地纯洁，而内心却沾满了无法洗刷的斑痕。
• It would be fitting if at Brzezinka the sun never shone and the grass withered, because this is a place of unutterable terror.
  布热金卡应当是个永远没有阳光、百花永远凋谢的地方，因为这里曾经是人间地狱。
• In the night, I started, hourly, from dreams of unutterable fear.
  而晚上，我会不断从无法言表的噩梦中惊醒。
• But what from almost any point of view we find so difficult to understand is, the unutterable abasement of the Leaders of Israel, their moral suicide as regarded Israel's hope and spiritual existence.
  但是，从几乎任何角度来看我们发现很难理解的是，自卑的难言的以色列领导人，他们的道德自杀视为以色列的希望和精神的存在。
• It is a picture of an inferable sorrow preparing the way for an unutterable and final joy.
  这幅图画所描绘的，是一种无可言喻最终的喜乐来临之前，短暂的哀伤。
• The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
  在目前，我们的说不出来的话，也许在别处已经说出来了。